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Stay Brome Grange, Nr Eye, Suffolk

This three-star hotel in the centre of East Anglia is a very handy, inexpensive base from which to explore these courses, with Diss Golf Club under two miles away. It’s an extended former coaching inn on the A140 serving a dependable menu of old favourites. The road network is good around here, with all courses played on this trip well under an hour away.

Where to go

The town of Bury St Edmunds offers a lively eating-out scene. Pea Porridge on Cannon Street is an independent restaurant with a strong Mediterranean theme that can proudly boast a Michelin Star. The Old Cannon Brewery on the same street is an excellent pub where the on-site brewery creates 11 flagship brews, while the Greene King Brewery has its own ‘beer cafe’.